How to Get Your Agile Development Team to Love You!!

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!Ron Lichty, principal, Ron Lichty Consulting author, Managing the Unmanageable!

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www.RonLichty.com www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net !!!

* Addison Wesley published October 2012

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Ron Lichty,��� Managing Software People & Teams

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Why we wrote:

* Addison Wesley published October 2012

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Rules of Thumb / Nuggets of Wisdom*

* 300 in the book

Rules of Thumb / Nuggets of Wisdom* •  Measure twice, cut once. •  Life is simpler when you plow around the

stump. •  Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late

software project makes it later. – Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

* 300 in the book

Delight Your Customers

In the beginning, everyone will talk about scope, and budget, and schedule, but in the end, nobody really cares about any of those things. The only thing they care about is this: ���People will love your software, or they won’t. ���So that’s the only criterion to which you should truly manage.  

—Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO

Delight Your Customers •  Making a difference…

How to Get Your Agile Team

to Love You!

Partner

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Partner

ScrumTeam.jpg (from Exploring Scrum- the Fundamentals, by Dan Rawsthorne & Doug Shimp)

Prioritize

Prioritize

Share the “Why”

Share the Big Picture

Block the Noise

Block the Noise

--John Evans photo Be a damper to the noise. --Joe Kleinschmidt, CTO

Block the Noise

Block the Noise •  Support Agile Values Methodology  You  Use  

Methodology  You  Associate  with  Increase  Profits  

Agile   Blended  (Some  Waterfall  and  Some  Agile)   Lean   Waterfall  

Agile   73.9%   13.0%   9.8%   0.0%  

Blended  (Some  Waterfall  and  Some  Agile)   31.8%   46.2%   10.6%   6.1%  

Lean   14.3%   0.0%   42.9%   14.3%  

Waterfall   15.8%   50.0%   18.4%   13.2%  

Don't  Know   5.3%   42.1%   26.3%   5.3%  

Make Trade-Offs

Be Available

Let Developers Focus

Let Developers Focus

•  Multitasking?

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Let the Team Focus

ScrumTeam.jpg (from Exploring Scrum- the Fundamentals, by Dan Rawsthorne & Doug Shimp)

Have the Data

Have the Data

•  “If you don’t have time to calculate value, we don’t have time to calculate cost.”��� --Jim Highsmith, agile coach and guru

Have the Data

•  You need to know about this classic book:��� Software by Numbers ��� Mark Denne & Jane Cleland-Huang

Engage Users

Engage Users

•  Remember: It’s about delighting users!

Listen

Incorporate Engineering’s Stories

Incorporate Engineering’s Stories

•  Webinar w Greg Cohen:���http://www.slideshare.net/RonLichty/prioritizing-the-product-backlog-aipmm-webinar

Be Tech Savvy

Theme Your Sprints

It’s the Values •  Create an Agile Culture

It’s the Values

•  Support Agile Values The Agile Manifesto

–  We value: •  Individuals and interactions over processes and tools •  Working software over comprehensive documentation •  Customer collaboration over contract negotiation •  Responding to change over following a plan

-- http://agilemanifesto.org/

It’s the Values

•  Support Agile Values Value the Agile Manifesto over sets of practices

–  We value: •  Individuals and interactions over processes and tools •  Working software over comprehensive documentation •  Customer collaboration over contract negotiation •  Responding to change over following a plan

-- http://agilemanifesto.org/

Ron Lichty Consulting •  Mentoring, Coaching, interim and acting CTO / VP Eng roles:

–  http://ronlichty.com, Ron@RonLichty.com

•  The book: ���Managing the Unmanageable: ��� Rules, Tools & Insights for Managing Software People & Teams –  http://ManagingTheUnmanageable.net

•  The study: ���The Study of Product Team Performance –  http://ronlichty.blogspot.com

•  Training: The Agile Manager Managing Software People and Teams